missing
part of speech
adjective (missing); verb (-ing form of miss)
meaning for a pupil
1) Missing means not there, lost, or not yet found. If one sock is missing, you cannot find it. tree →
2) A missing person or pet is lost and people are looking for it. tree →
3) Missing is also the -ing form of miss: not hitting, not catching, or feeling sad that someone is away. tree →
4) Noticing that someone or something is not there, such as an empty bed. tree →
sense in the lessons
a lost or unknown part: missing pieces, missing pages, a missing number in a sum; in everyday life lost things and missing-pet posters; in stories a mystery often starts when something goes missing; phrases «go missing», «fill in the missing word», «missing you»
examples
- Three puzzle pieces are missing. tree →
- Find the missing number: 5 + ? = 12. tree →
- The book has 10 missing pages. tree →
- How many cards are missing from the deck? tree →
- Our cat went missing, so we put up posters. tree →
- Fill in the missing word in each sentence. tree →
- I am missing my grandma, who lives far away. tree →
- He kept missing the ball at first. tree →
- “Hullo, where is John?” he asked, suddenly missing the third bed. tree →
note
Points to the unknown: often missing = whole − what is there. In «5 + ? = 12» you subtract to find it. Trap: the missing number in a sum is found by taking away, not by adding. Safety: if a child is missing or lost, tell a trusted adult or the police at once.
In the corpora
- A credit score is a rating of how reliably someone pays; missing payments lowers it and makes borrowing harder and dearer.
- What's all this tax?" Dad laughs and explains where the missing money went.
- A language model learned by predicting missing or next words in enormous amounts of text.
- Even simple recipes from a bot can have mistakes, such as a missing ingredient.
- Films hide clues early on, so scrolling on a phone during a film means missing details that matter later.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «missing» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.